Improvement in signs



O. BELLENOT.

Sign.

No. 210,983. Patented Dec. 17, I878.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

NJUERS, FHQTO-UYMGGRAPMER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

-UNITED STATES PAT ron.

CHARLES BELLENOT, on nroruuonn, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SlGNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,983, dated December 17, 1878 application filed November 2, 1878.

on which the lamps are located) attached thereto.

My improvement relates to the construction of the nameplate, and the devices by which it is secured to the lamp in such a manner as to adapt it to be conveniently detached when required.

In the accompanying drawing I have represented a side elevation of a street-lamp hay, in g a name plate attached by devices constructed according to my invention.

The lamp Ais represented of the usual an gular form. The letters B,composing the streetname, are cut out of metal, and separately attached to wires or bars, forming a rigid frame, (J. Said frame is attached to lamp A by means of a cleat or double catch, D, at one end, and by a hook, E, at the other end. Said cleat and hook are soldered or otherwise permanently secured to the side bars of the lampframe.

To attach the frame 0 to the lamp, the former is held in an inclined position across the front of the lamp, and its upper end passed over the ends of the cleat D. The left'hand end of the frame is then raised, and allowed to catch on the hook E. The frame will then be suspended in a horizontal position, as shown in full lines, Fig. 1, and while adapted to be easily removed from the lamp, it yet constitutes an attachment which is, for all practical purposes, an integral portion of the lamp.

If preferred, for the purpose of rendering the attachment of the frame 0 more secure, they may be connected at adjacent ends by means of a wire or cord, or any other detachable device.

The dotted lines, Fig. 1, show the frame 0 suspended from the cleat above,,which may be its position while the lamp is being cleaned.

In place of attaching the letters to frame (1, they may be soldered or otherwise permanently connected, and said frame dispensed with, as when a stencil-plate is employed.

What I claim isi The combination, with the lamp, of the cleat D and hook E, fixed thereto, and thenameplate frame (J, constructed as specified, to adapt it for connection with and support by the cleat and hook, and to permitits convenient detachment therefrom, as shown and described.

CHAS. BELLENOT.

Witnesses WM. N. POLLARD, T. L. WHITING. 

